Spindletop Center will break ground later this month on an apartment complex called The Cottages at Spindletop, the third in the center's series of housing solutions for people with disabilities and low incomes.

The Aug. 22 ground-breaking ceremony with Spindletop CEO Dr. N. Charles Harris will be at 10 a.m. at the center's Beaumont south campus, 2750 S. Eighth St.

Spindletop will be able to build the new facility due to a $1.5 million grant from HUB, nearly $150,000 in HUD rent subsidies and a grant of more than $350,000 from HOME funds supplied to the City of Beaumont. Additionally, Spindletop will invest $423,000 of its own funds to complete the project.

"Seventy-seven percent of people who have lived in our first complex were homeless when they came to us," said Spindletop Director of Housing Brandy Mouton in a statement. "Thanks to stable housing, about one quarter have been able to get jobs, and several have pursued higher education. A quarter of them were even able to leave our facilities and get housing on their own. Housing can make all the difference."